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What do y’all think about this ring? It acid tests as 14k. It is yellow gold, the flower on the side is white. I can’t find any markings, but the ring is pretty worn. I am thinking it might be Edwardian. Does that seem right? Where do you guys think it was made?

 

Yes.

 

My grandmother's engagement ring looked similar to this. Are you sure it is glass? Needs to be cleaned; might look very different after. The shape of the stone is mine cut.

 

Yes, it’s glass. The local jeweler told me so. It did not make sense to me to have glass in a gold ring.

 

I've seen, I own, gold rings with glass stones, but 10K & much simpler settings. Wonder if a diamond was lost & they couldn't afford to replace with another?

 

Did the jeweller use a tester?

 

Did jeweller offer to buy it?

 

I don’t know. But I assume so. He took it to the back room, then came back and told me it was glass. He was helping a paying customer so I did not want to bother him too much.

 

No he did not offer to buy it. He said it was old and might be worth more with the glass, than if I put a new stone in it.

 

I thought maybe someone had replaced it too. I bought it at an estate sale out in the country a couple of years ago when I started estate saleing. I had no clue what it was. I just thought it was pretty. The family had not a clue either(they pretty much gave it to me at 50 cents). I feel bad now that I know it is something special.I tried to do a bit of research recently and got some gold testing acid to try to figure out if it was real. It holds up very well with the 14k but slowly dissolves in the 18k acid.

 

Die stamped ring,"bright cut" setting that looks like it was done with a rusty screwdriver.The ring could have been made in the U.S. or most European countries.

 

Thanks, I will have to look that up.

 

In the future never let a jeweler examine your stones out of your sight. The majority are honest but there are some that will swap out your real stone with a fake . A friend of mine had this happen to her,and she said he only had the ring back there a few minutes. Since then Im leery .By the by she sued him and got the value of her stone back.

 

This may have been glass to start with, and it could be really good gold-fill. This ring was made in the early to mid-1920s, and they did all sorts of crazy (to us) things back then. The ground zero for those pierced work pieces was Rhode Island/ North Attleboro Massachusetts. It came in both costume and real metal; I collect the costume stuff (can't afford the gold unless I get it by accident.) The Victorians used to make gold-fill that could fool an acid test.

 

Ok, wow. That’s crazy horrible. Glad she at least got compensation for it.

 

Good to know, Thanks. I can’t afford anything real either . But I still like the uniqueness of the vintage and antique stuff I find. Fortunately estate sale jewelry is quite inexpensive where I live.